Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) For the purposes of the valuation referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above , it shall be assumed — ( a ) that the landlord in default is selling his interest on the open market to a willing buyer ; ( b ) that neither the residential occupier nor any member of his family wishes to buy ; and ( c ) that it is unlawful to carry out any substantial development of any of the land in which the landlord 's interest subsists or to demolish the whole or part of any building on that land . |
| 2 | Jakarta 's Governor Wiyogo Atmordarminto insists that to drive a becak is a degrading occupation , considering Indonesia 's level of development . |
| 3 | The university says that to release the report would be injurious , to innocent parties ’ . |
| 4 | The government says that to settle the matter it is calling in Britain 's Scotland Yard . |
| 5 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
| 6 | Intelmet says that to make the service pay it will require just 10 regular customers every month . |
| 7 | The fine print says that to become a technical member , the organisation or company in question must already be a member of one of the councils . |
| 8 | Before the Director General can take action under the Regulations , the advertisement must be such that it both deceives or is likely to deceive and is likely to affect the economic behaviour of those whom it reaches or to injure a competitor of the trader ( usually the advertiser ) whose interests the advertisement is promoting . |
| 9 | Like all good recording artists , McGegan realises that to make a successful recording you must be prepared to exaggerate , and it is this that makes Floridante a success . |
| 10 | Smithers calculates that to finance a corporate-sector deficit of ¥40 trillion at the current high corporate-borrowing rate of 5% ( almost 4% after inflation ) would cost ¥2 trillion a year . |
| 11 | This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years . |
| 12 | I support my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay ( Mr. Allason ) , because common sense dictates that to run a household on one 's own is considerably more expensive than for two people with two incomes . |
| 13 | An applicant for such a grant requires to lodge with his application a plan of the premises to which the application relates and to display a notice intimating his application at the proposed premises ( subss. ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) ) . |
| 14 | The basic pension is payable according to a contributions formula which stipulates that to gain a full pension , sufficient contributions have to be paid in nine out of every ten years of a ‘ working life ’ ( i.e. paid employment ) . |
| 15 | This means that to use the node structure from the trie , few routes would be able to be re-used , resulting in a dawg which is little different from the original trie ( figure 3.6 ) . |
| 16 | This means that to prove the requisite degree of mens rea for an affray , it will he sufficient for the prosecutor to prove that the defendant knowingly took part in a fight . |
| 17 | This means that to obtain the same measurement for height and width the proportion of stitches to rows will be different . |
| 18 | This means that to have a big impact , benefits would have to be cut in real terms — undercutting inflation — by up to four per cent . |
| 19 | This means that to calculate a more useful index , we should ‘ weight ’ the unit prices of each item in such a way that the weights reflect the relative importance of each item in the average family 's budget . |
| 20 | A sales manager estimates that to launch a new product on to the market will cost £200,000 in development and marketing costs . |
| 21 | It is quite common in talking about teaching to focus on what the teacher does and to forget the effect this may have on the learner . |
| 22 | However , since he may not release a prisoner unless and until he is recommended to do so by the Parole Board , the stage in an individual prisoner 's sentence at which the board considers whether to make a recommendation for his release is therefore very important . |
| 23 | The tribunal then decides whether to issue an ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ warning to either party , the result of which is that if that party persists with the claim or a contention as part of a claim at the hearing , and loses , then costs may be awarded against that party . |
| 24 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 25 | Indeed , Dr Tony Underwood of the University of Sydney suggests that to control the crown of thorns starfish could , in the end , do more harm to the reef than good . |
| 26 | However , research on Indian students learning English suggests that to learn the language for commercial purposes it may also be effective to have instrumental motivation . |
| 27 | Oakeshott recognizes a morality inherent in the rule of law and suggests that to deliberate the jus of lex involves not deduction but a particular kind of moral consideration ; that the prescriptions of law ‘ should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility ’ of a people . |
| 28 | The evidence provided by this survey suggests that to offer an external agenda for reform , such as the Solihull booklet , in a spirit of laissez faire is doubly insufficient . |
| 29 | But this commercial peg : ‘ All industry knows that to please the teenagers is the golden way to big dividends ’ , contained all manner of occluded and contradictory messages . |
| 30 | For example , many a small child knows that to alleviate the pain and irritation of a nettle sting he need only reach for the nearest broad-leaved docken , ( Rumex obtusifolius ) and rub it on the offending part for instant relief . |